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It took three summers of enthusiastically reading a hundred pages, then reluctantly having to put it aside, but I finally finished Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya’s Ursa Major (Большая медведица, 1870–71). I want to put down a few spoiler-laden...
The follow up session to my CPAD assessment for ME was effectively a carbon copy of the previous session, just without the introductory interview and history data collection. Structure of the assessment The session had four parts, in...
This post continues to elaborate on Virtual Consensus and the new Loglet abstractions of the AtomicLog and LogDrive. My last post focused on composability, this post looks at log sealing.A common aspect of segmented logs is that when...
I saw a lot of people posting daily this past month while I struggled just to come up with weekly posts. Generally speaking I just don’t feel like I’m all that interesting. I also noticed a lot of people putting together weekly recaps...
Man is nothing else, but what he makes of himself. ~Jean-Paul SartreAmong the founding principles of our American democracy is the ideal that we each be free to pursue "happiness." That's not a guarantee of happiness, but rather an...
It’s the summer of 1990, and the Sega Genesis has already been out for nearly a year in North America. Barely anyone knows this, of course — the original Sonic the Hedgehog wouldn’t launch until the next June, and that’s when Sega’s...
23-08-26 The day was looking bright and before I'd decided what to do with it Mary suggested we take the car out. Since she knows I'm obsessed with SBW she was happy to drive us there and have a 3 mile walk. Her as yet undiagnosed knee...
If you cast your mind back to when this interminable voyage round Milan began, I decided to do the five lines in numerical order, because I'm boring and a bit predictable. With the M1 and the M2 largely done, my spreadsheet was clear for...
If you’re a fan of the web, you probably want to know that voting is now open for that lovely initiative that is the Tiny Awards, running for the 4th consecutive year. I got asked to be a judge this time around, and my votes helped shape...
We need to stop talking about “climate change” as though we are discussing a slightly inconvenient change in the weather. Climate change is too soft, too neutral. Climate change makes it sound as though something simply happened to us,...
A friend asked me last week how long it takes to get a recipe right. I told him the only answer I know: As long as it takes. I’d like to be someone who could “adjust my expectations,” make peace with “close enough,” or have the slightest...
“I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out and smell the air after a good, hard rain. These small actions help remind me that there are so many great, glorious pieces of good in the world.” - Dolly...
FDR has always been one of my favorite presidents, second maybe to Lincoln. Both were men the establishment assumed were one of them until, to their horror, they governed like they weren't. Both could trash the opposition in one breath...
3 April 1945. Original Caption: “Dragon teeth on the Siegfried Line presented an obstacle to tanks of U. S. Seventh Army in the Wissembourg area, France. Note teeth extend to mountains which raise a natural barrier.” Signal Corps Photo...
Some 110 years ago this month. Imperial Russian Army pilots and observers training in Kiev, Ukraine, August 1916, with American-made Colt 1895 pattern “potato digger” machine guns, likely made by Marlin-Rockwell. Contrary to the common...